Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information

Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information∗ Arindrajit Dube

We estimate the impact of coups and top-secret coup authorizations on asset prices of partially nationalized multinational companies that stood to benefit from U.S.-backed coups. Stock returns of highly exposed firms reacted to coup authorizations classified as top-secret. The average cumulative abnormal return to a coup authorization was 9% over 4 days for a fully nationalized company, rising ...

Information extraction for classified advertisements

1. Abstract This report describes our work on the project part of the course Language Processing and Computational Linguistics. It presents a java written program that extracts six important pieces of information from French job advertisements. The inputs of the system are advertisements taken from the internet and converted as text files. The results presented in this paper show that the extra...

Diagnosing Rickettsia: crimps, complications, and coups.

TO THE EDITOR—The recent publication by Denison et al [1] conducted a study on the detection of the 3 most common spotted fever group rickettsia (SFGR) species endemic to the United States: Ricksettsia rickettsii, Rickettsia parkeri, and Rickettsia akari. When patients present with fever and rash and SFGR is in the diagnosis, serology and skin biopsy are often done. Serology can be negative ear...

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Classified information: the data clustering problem

a combination of efficiency, emissions, noise levels, and other criteria. Researchers routinely classify documents as “relevant to the current project” or “irrelevant.” Genome decoding divides chromosomes into genes, regulatory regions, signals, and so on. Pathologists identify cells as cancerous or benign. We can classify data into different groups by clustering data that are close with respec...